The Central Role of Thailand's Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counter-insurgency Period / / Puangthong R. Pawakapan.
The Thai military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) was in charge of a wide range of civil affairs projects during the country's struggle with the communist insurgency between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. These projects - including rural development programmes, mass organiz...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (34 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- The Central Role of Thailand's Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counterinsurgency Period -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY ISOC? -- POLITICAL OFFENSIVE -- LEGAL LEGITIMACY DURING THE COUNTER-INSURGENCY PERIOD -- EXPANSION IN THE SEMI-DEMOCRATIC PERIOD -- ISOC IN ANTI-ELECTORAL POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES |
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Summary: | The Thai military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) was in charge of a wide range of civil affairs projects during the country's struggle with the communist insurgency between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. These projects - including rural development programmes, mass organizations and mobilization campaigns, and psychological operations - provided justification for the military to routinely penetrate the socio-political sphere. Since the Cold War drew to a close, little attention has been paid to ISOC's role and power within the state apparatus. Since the coups of September 2006 and May 2014 that toppled the elected governments, ISOC has been dangerously empowered and increasingly employed by the military regimes to dictate the country's political direction. The power of the Thai military is exerted not only through its use of force but also by means of its socio-political arms. ISOC represents a potent tool with which conservative elites can undermine and control electoral democracy and through which the military can maintain its power. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789814786829 9783110719543 9783110662986 9783110606676 |
DOI: | 10.1355/9789814786829 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Puangthong R. Pawakapan. |